Category: Textbooks

Physical Geology: Earth Revealed 9th edition is appropriate for introductory physical geology classes. This etextbook, which includes the same information as the market-leading Physical Geology – 13th edition, by Plummer and Carlson, is for the instructor who prefers to cover plate tectonics very early in the course.The 9th edition has

Fundamentals of Machine Component Design 6th edition (PDF) continues to focus on the fundamentals of component design — force flow concepts, free body diagrams, failure theories, and fatigue design, with applications to springs, fasteners, gears, clutches, bearings, and brakes. Problem-solving skills are developed by the implementation of a proven methodology

Essentials of Environmental Health, 2nd edition is a best-selling offering from the APHA/Jones & Bartlett Learning Essential Public Health series is a clear and comprehensive study of the major topics of environmental health, including: Environmental diseases (ionizing and non-ionizing radiation, microbial agents). Applications and domains of environmental health (food safety,

Multimodal Behavioral Analysis in the Wild, (PDF) delivers state-of-the-art behavioral signal processing using different data modalities, with a particular focus on recognizing the strengths and limitations of current technologies. The ebook focuses on audio and video modalities, while also stressing emerging modalities, such as an accelerometer or proximity data. It

Along with the progressively important runtime engines prevalent in our daily-life computing, there is a strong demand from the software community for a concrete presentation on the design and implementation of modern virtual machines, including the JavaScript engine, Java virtual machine and Android execution engine. The community anticipates seeing not